Agnes Harrington

  General Notes:

~A History of the Family of Sherborn, names Agnes as the daughter of William Stanley of Hooton, Cheshire ⁷⁷²
~Douglas Richardson's Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, names Agnes as the daughter of Nicholas Harrington, Knight of Farleton, Lanchashire, by his wife Isabel, daughter and heiress of William English, Knight. ⁸²¹
~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 170A32, (8th Edition) also names Agnes Stanley ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in her life were:

• Children. ⁸²¹
Agnes and Richard de Sherburne left a large family. Some of their children were:
Richard Sherburne, son and heir, who died before his father, married Alice, daughter of Lawrence Hamerton of Wicklisworth, Yorkshire. The inscription Richard's tomb at Mitton once read, "Orate pro anima Ric. de Sherburne et pro anima Alicie Hamerton uxoris sue A.D. MCCCCXLI. Obiit prefatus Ric. et erat hic in Tumulatus in die Ascensionis D'ni nostri Jesu Christi. Cujus a'i'e' p'pitietur Deus. Amen."
Alice Sherburne, married to Sir John, son of Sir Peter, son of Sir Richard Tempest
Isabell Sherburne, married John towneley of Towneley
Elizabeth Sherburne, married Thomas, son of Richard Clitheroe of Alkle, Notthinghamshire
Jenetta Sherburne
Nicholas Sherburne
James Sherburne
Mabel Sherburne

Agnes' children are mentioned in her will, as well as their spouses and her sister Elizabeth Stanely. "And to my daughter dame Alice Tempest a broche of golde. And to my son Roberte a chene of gold with a crosse. And to my doghter Issabell a chene of gold wt. ii girdils, ye tone redde and tother sangvyn. And to my doghter Elizabeth a girdill of grene and ii bedds and xxx yerdds of lyn cloth shappyn in shetes. . . . And to my sone John my singnet, and to my son Nicholas and James auther a gold ringe. And to my doghter Mabill a parr of coral bedds. And to my goddoghter Agnes of Calverley a gold ryng. And to my son Sir John Tempest, knyght, a broche of golde. . . . And to my dogter Issabell my coufer witt all my array except ii furres, ye tane of martyns, ye tother of blake almbes, ye whilke I beqwet to my son John."
~A History of the Family of Sherborn, pgs. 16-17

Agnes married Sir Richard Sherburne, son of Richard de Bayley de Stonyhurst and Margaret de Sherburne, before 4 Aug 1391 in Lancashire, England.⁷⁷² (Sir Richard Sherburne was born in 1381 in Stonyhurst, Yorkshire, England ⁸²¹, christened on 12 Oct 1381 in Mitton Craven, Yorkshire, England ⁸²¹ and died on 29 May 1441 in England ⁸²¹.)